The Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (previously known as the Apsara Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role) is given by the producers of the film and television guild as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. Following its inception in 2004, no one was awarded in 2005 and 2007.
† - indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award ‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award
Superlatives SuperlativeBest Actor in a Leading RoleBest Actor in a Supporting RoleOverallActor with most awardsHrithik Roshan Shahrukh Khan Ranbir Kapoor2---- Hrithik Roshan Shahrukh Khan Ranbir Kapoor2Actor with most nominationsShahrukh Khan7Irrfan Khan Naseeruddin Shah Nawazuddin Siddiqui3Shahrukh Khan7Actor with most nominations(without ever winning)Ajay Devgan3Naseeruddin Shah3Ajay Devgan Naseeruddin Shah4Actor with most nominationsin a single year----Rishi Kapoor (2010)2Rishi Kapoor (2010) Ajay Devgan (2011) Emraan Hashmi (2012) Nawazuddin Siddiqui (2013)2
Winners and nominees
2000s
2004 Hrithik Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya as Rohit Mehra † Ajay Devgan – Gangaajal as SP Amit Kumar ‡ Amitabh Bachchan – Khakee as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav ‡ Sanjay Dutt – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Murli Prasad Sharma Munna Bhai Shahrukh Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Aman Mathur ‡ 2005 – No award 2006 Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai † Akshay Kumar – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Aditya Thakur Anil Kapoor – No Entry as Kishen Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Rai ‡ Shahrukh Khan – Swades: We, the People as Mohan Bhargava † 2007 – No award 2008 Shahrukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan † Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant Desai ‡ Akshaye Khanna – Gandhi, My Father as Harilal Gandhi Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev Gupta Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap ‡ 2009 Hrithik Roshan – Jodhaa Akbar as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar † Abhishek Bachchan – Dostana as Sameer "Sam" Acharya ‡ Akshay Kumar – Singh Is Kinng as Happy Singh ‡ Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi ‡ Naseeruddin Shah – A Wednesday! as Anonymous antagonist ‡
2010s
2010 Shahrukh Khan – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Surinder "Suri" Sahni/Raj Kapoor ‡ Aamir Khan – Ghajini as Sanjay Singhania Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Sidharth "Sid" Mehra ‡ Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jai Vardhan Singh/Veer Singh ‡ Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie Sharma/Guddu Sharma ‡ 2011 Salman Khan – Dabangg as Chulbul Pandey ‡ Ajay Devgan – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Sultan Mirza ‡ Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish as Ethan Mascarenhas ‡ Ranbir Kapoor – Raajneeti as Samar Pratap ‡ Shahrukh Khan – My Name Is Khan as Rizwan Khan † 2012 Ranbir Kapoor – Rockstar as Janardan Jhakhar / Jordan † Ajay Devgan – Singham as Bajirao Singham ‡ Emraan Hashmi – Murder 2 as Arjun Bhagawat Salman Khan – Bodyguard as Lovely Singh ‡ Shahrukh Khan – Don 2 as Don ‡ 2013 Ranbir Kapoor – Barfi! as Murphy "Barfi" Johnson † Ayushmann Khurrana – Vicky Donor as Vicky Arora Hrithik Roshan – Agneepath as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan ‡ Irrfan Khan – Paan Singh Tomar as Paan Singh Tomar ‡ Manoj Bajpai – Gangs of Wasseypur as Sardar Khan ‡ Shahrukh Khan – Jab Tak Hai Jaan as Samar Anand ‡ 2014 Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Milkha Singh † Irrfan Khan – The Lunchbox as Saajan Fernandez Rajkummar Rao – Shahid as Shahid Azmi Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Kabir "Bunny" Thapar ‡ Ranveer Singh – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Ram Rajari ‡ Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che! as Ishaan Bhatt 2015 Shahid Kapoor - Haider as Haider Meer 2016 Ranveer Singh - Bajirao Mastani as Peshwa Bajirao
See also Producers Guild Film Awards Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
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